Feature: The 2011 Budget

The House Republicans' reckless plan to cut $100 billion in government spending by Oct. 1, including a 30 per cent budget reduction for the Environmental Protection Agency, would inflict grave harm to our economy and to our health. NRDC's experts analyze how the cuts would affect environmental protections.

As early as this week, the Senate will consider a funding bill for Energy and Water Development, and will be asked to undermine safeguards for a host of water bodies under the Clean Water Act. Senators Barrasso (R-WY) and Heller...continued→

But opposition arises from the outdoor recreation industry. In June, at the height of the budget battle, we wrote about the Obama administration’s unfortunate backtracking on a key policy to protect wild lands. By agreeing to a Republican sponsored rider...continued→

Tomorrow, the Senate Appropriations Committee is set to mark-up the 2012 fiscal year appropriations bill which outlines the amount of funding that will be invested in international action on global warming. A new letter from 15 major environmental, faith-based, development,...continued→

The President, as promised, made his recommendations yesterday to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction commonly called the “Super Committee” to meet its ambitious agenda. This joint committee is responsible for finding between $1.2 and $ 1.5 trillion in...continued→

House Republicans’ obsession with larding must-pass funding bills with policy riders mainly aimed at rolling back environmental safeguards and stopping the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from doing its job of protecting public health seems to have taken a short...continued→

This past week, the full House of Representatives began consideration of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY 2012 (H.R. 2584). As many of my colleagues have already blogged, H.R. 2584 includes many anti-environmental riders and amendments that...continued→

The House Appropriations subcommittee responsible for outlining US international global warming funding has just released their bill detailing the amount of money that will support these efforts. This comes on the heels of a House authorization bill passed out of...continued→

Last week, I wrote about two handfuls of dirty water “riders” in the House of Representatives’ funding bill for EPA and the Department of the Interior. This week, the bill is being considered on the House floor, and yet even...continued→

On Friday, we won another legal battle in the fight to bring protective ballast water standards to the Great Lakes! The federal appeals court in Washington, DC denied a legal challenge by ports and shipping interests to U.S. EPA’s Clean...continued→

Tea Party leaders in the House have dramatically stepped up their assault on America’s environmental and public health safeguards. Last week alone they used about 50 floor votes and more than 30 policy riders on spending bills to undermine the...continued→

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